Why is Irrigation Important in Michigan?
March 5, 2026 10:00AM - 10:50AM
Registration Deadline: March 5, 2026 - 08:00AM
Zoom
Contact: Molly Sears, Lyndon Kelley
The irrigation adds value through increasing yield, reducing risk, and valuable fruit, vegetables, and specialty crops often not grown without irrigation, positively affecting farm incomes, land values, and tax base.
More Crop per Drop -irrigation increases the efficiency of inputs, land, labor, fertilizer, and pesticide, while reducing the potential loss that can contaminate our water and deplete our atmosphere.
Speaker: Dr. Molly Sears, MSU Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics and Lyndon Kelley, Purdue/MSU Extension Educator
The 2026 MI Ag Ideas to Grow With conference will be held virtually, February 23 - March 5, 2026. The program encompasses many aspects of the agricultural industry and offers a full array of educational sessions for farmers and homeowners interested in food production and other agricultural endeavors. While there is no cost to participate, attendees must register to receive the necessary zoom links. Registrants can attend as many sessions as they would like and are also able to jump around between tracks. RUP and CCA credits may be offered for several of the sessions. More information can be found at: https://www.canr.msu.edu/miagideas/.
Registration for this specific session is part of the larger overall MI Ag Ideas to Grow With program—by signing up for the overall program, you'll gain access to attend this session along with all other program offerings.
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